To:V. M. MOLOTOV FOR THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Dictated:Dictated by phone on February 2, 1922Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

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To Comrade Molotov for the Politbureau

SinceZinoviev insists on my fulfilling the assignment
of the Comintern’s Executive Committee to give a report
on the New Economic Policy at an enlarged sitting of the
Comintern Executive Committee on 12–II, and since I am
quite unable to do this, because I am
unwell,[1]as I have
repeatedly told Zinoviev, I request the Politbureau to
resolve:

1)Totake into consideration Lenin’s statement that he
is quite unable, because of illness, to fulfil the Executive
Committee’s assignment.

2)Toauthorise the Russian members of the Executive
Committee to cancel the decision appointing Lenin’s
report.

3)Toauthorise the said members of the Executive
Committee to have Comrade Pyatakov appointed rapporteur
on this subject.

4)Toput on Pyatakov the duty to prepare, not later
than next Sunday, first, detailed theses of his report,
second, an outline of his report and a summary of the
principal figures which are to be cited in the report, and to havePyatakov conform his theses to those submitted by Lenin
to the Third Congress of the Comintern, and earlier approved
by the Party
C.C.[2]

5)Toauthorise Comrades Zinoviev, Bukharin and Lenin
to correct and make a final editing of Pyatakov’s theses
and his outline report.

6)Tohave Pyatakov make his report about an hour long,
at most one hour and a half.

7)Toinstruct Comrade Pyatakov to cite the most
concise principal figures showing the successful development
of industry and trade under the New Economic Policy,
and the significance of this for rehabilitating the Republic’s
economy.

8)Totake into consideration Lenin’s statement that
if his health allows him, he will attend Pyatakov’s report
and will take the floor after him for a short supplementary
statement or communication, not in the nature of a
report.[3]

[1]SeeDocument 615 of this volume, andCollected Works, Fifth
(Russian) Edition, Vol. 54, Document 232.—Ed.

[2]Seepresent edition, Vol. 32, pp. 453–61.—Ed.

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